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What are suitable Cycles for Re-Qualification?

With the revision of Annex 15 in October 2015, the topic of requalification has become more important. Time intervals for the assessment of the equipment with regard to the qualification status and for the requalification itself should be justified. Criteria for the assessment should be defined. This is sometimes difficult. Chapter 9 of the revised ISPE Baseline No 5 Commissioning & Qualification of June 2019 on the periodic review can be helpful here.

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Scale Calibration: Requirements of the FDA

The GMP regulations do not provide any concrete specifications for the calibration of weighing instruments. They refer to suitable measuring and weighing ranges and the required accuracy. Regular maintenance and calibration are also required.  So how can these general formulations be interpreted?

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ISPE publishes revised Guideline on Commissioning and Qualification

The ISPE Baseline Guide Vol. 5 on Commissioning & Qualification has been in place since 2001 and was thus no longer up to date. Recent developments, e.g. towards a lifecycle model, were not reflected in the document. Now the ISPE Baseline Guide Vol. 5 has been completely revised. 

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cGMP Cleaning Validation - FDA's Current Requirements

What do authorities require regarding cleaning validation? Official GMP inspection reports deliver helpful answers to this question. Through the Freedom of Information Act, the FDA is required to publish inspection results. This is particularly the case with Warning Letters. Here, even details of deficiencies regarding cleaning validation are included in the Warning Letter. 

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Recent GMP defects in process validation

What are the authorities' requirements regarding process validation? Regulatory GMP inspection reports are useful in answering that question. The "Freedom of Information Act" obliges the US FDA to publish all inspection results. The FDA does that particularly when it comes to warning letters.

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Critical Process Parameters and Process Validation

Regulations require that the critical process variables should be included in validation. This has been recently confirmed again by the FDA in a Warning Letter.

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Process Validation - FDA criticises Missing Lifecycle

In a Warning Letter recently published, the FDA addressed deficiencies regarding process validation. What did the FDA discover?

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Cleaning Validation under the View of the FDA

With the publication EMA's guideline on Shared and Dedicated Facilities and the revision of Annex 15, the topic of cleaning validation has gained new attention. The PDE concept is now the determining factor. But what about the FDA?

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Monographs on radiopharmaceutical preparations - Revised Guideline

At the beginning of the year, the EDQM published a revised version of its guidelines for the preparation of monographs on radiopharmaceutical preparations. It now includes a new section on method validation.

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Cleaning Validation of Medical Devices: What should it look like? An ASTM Guide provides Answers

There are regulations for cleaning validation in the pharmaceutical sector and in the manufacture of active ingredients. But what about the cleaning validation of medical devices?

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